Okay, sorry about my anal-ness making me wait.
Sifting through the latest OOC, IC, and the Log, I believe there are only two Materialized shadows left for me to engage, a Succubus 8 near me and a Wraith 6 near Yukika.
(Correct me if I'm wrong - the Log is not fully up-to-date, and I think some spirits have been double-killed - which is totally cool given the chaos of this melee!).
I think I actually have pretty much zero chance of hitting one of these - they are nasty on Full D!!! - but can't hurt to try, plus my attacks will mean Friend in Melee bonuses plus stack bonuses for the shadow having defended against multiple attacks, if you time it right.
A dirty fighter, Al will go for the one near Yukika - won't give myself charging bonus cuz you gotta be Running to get that and I'm not sure we've got room for that (plus Al never likes to do anything in a hurry if he can help it), but if it's concentrating on Yukika I'll give myself the +2 for superior position.
So I'll go with 15 dice...(I go before the suppressive fire on IP2, and by the time I go on IP3 the suppressive fire will be gone thanks to Isaint, so I should never face the -3 mod).
Same center + called shot vitals combo with my melee complex action.
Melee Wraith 6 on IP2:
15d6t5 5Now with its full-D it rolls 22 dice
Defense in IP2 for Wraith 6 near Yukika:
22d6t5 4Whoa - a miracle!
Okay, I'm doing 10P and it has no armor vs spirit claw, so it soaks with 6 dice
url=http://orokos.com/roll/444669]Soak vs. Al's 1 net success[/url]:
6d6t5 1Hmmm - this is making up for the succubus's 14 hits on me earlier...
But it's still standing with one box left.
Then since I'm not ducking the suppressive fire I need to roll to see if I get hit...
Avoids suppressive fire:
15d6t5 1What?!?!?!?
Okay, still almost no Edge left, so I'll have soak the armor-piercing damage...
Soaking suppressive fire:
13d6t5 5Okay, 2 boxes of stun, bringing me to 3, so -1, so I lose my action on IP3.
EDIT: Hmmm - about to write IC but...trying to think of how I could've avoided that suppressive fire and thus not lost my third IP...the defense roll is listed as Edge + Reaction. And full D is applicable...so what about Combat Sense - that "instinctive sense" applies to "ranged and melee defense tests"...does it apply here...?